The Internet is popular on the Internet that the attacks of cows are more often causing people to death than attacks from sharks. We decided to check if this is so.

The media wrote about the danger emanating from the cows (for example, "Vesti.ru" And Lenta.ru), Information Portals, resources with entertaining selection facts. Users of social networks tell about this (Twitter, "VKontakte" Facebook*), YouTube and blog platforms ("Zen","Picabu"). This information is found on sites About animals.

"Verified" has already debunked myth The fact that sharks often attack people to eat them is largely their bloodthirsty image was created by mass culture, for example, a series of films “Jaw”, and is far from the real state of affairs. The fact that animals allegedly feel blood in water in many hundreds of meters and thanks to this they sail to attack, too it turned out untrue.

By information The Florida Museum of Natural History, which is conducting an international database of sharks attacks on a person, in 2022 there were only nine incidents in the world that ended in the death of people, and only five of them were not provoked by the dead themselves. Over the previous ten years, the number of deaths of sharks per person Varyed From two (in 2019) to ten (in 2013 and 2020).

It would seem that cows are quite calm in appearance to herbivores, they have no fangs or claws. Nevertheless, due to their size and weight, they can cause very significant injuries to a person, especially when it comes to herd. “Verified” failed to find global statistics on the attacks of cows on people, but how often they occur, can be judged by media reports. For example, in 2020, several similar incidents occurred in the UK. In June, an 82-year-old Briton and his wife attacked A herd of cows in Yorkshire - the man died, the woman escaped with bruises. In September in the same area and for the same reason Died Teacher of a local school. Soon in Northumberland, a similar attack Herms of cows on a passerby - he also died of injuries.

The Guardian newspaper with reference to labor protection management Reportedthat from 2000 to 2020, only 98 people killed cows in the UK. Office called farmers do not leave animals with newborn calves in fields with public pedestrian paths, since 70% of all attacks were connected precisely with protection the cow of their cubs. And this is a threat not only for pedestrians who accidentally encountered cows - specialists They sayThat almost two -thirds of the attacks of cattle on farmers ending with a fatal outcome are performed by cows during the deadline or in the first months of the life of calves.

Disease Control Centers (CDC) in 2009 Published Statistics on the attacks of cows in four states (Ayove, Kansas, Missouri and Nebrake) from 2003 to 2008. For a five-year period, only in these regions, due to attacks by cows or bulls, 21 people died, from two to six cases were recorded annually. StudySpended in Sweden in 1989, showed that due to aggressive behavior of cattle from 1975 to 1984, 16 people were killed in the country.

It is difficult to strictly compare the number of sharks and cows who died from attacks, since the data that “verified” was found according to the latter are very fragmentary. However, even according to this fragmented statistics, it is clear that there are a lot of deaths associated with the attacks of cows: if only in four states of the United States in some years this number reached six dead, it can be assumed that it should be ten times more around the world. At the same time, in the last decade, no more than ten people became the victims of sharks around the world.

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